Despite the miniscule amount of solar power generated today -- roughly one-thirtieth of one percent of all the electricity produced in the U.S. -- recent technological advances and a continued decline in the price of solar systems are prompting more homeowners to ask if this renewable energy source is now worth the investment.
MarketWatch's Stacey Delo goes on-site with contractor Greg Kennedy of Occidental Power to find out. 
More than a dozen states may run out of money in the coming months for a popular program designed to cover poor, uninsured children before relief from the president's proposed budget kicks in, lawmakers warned administration officials on Thursday. They were trumpeted to become the first generation of American inheritors -- coddled and swaddled and loaded with money handed down to them, the fabled baby boomers.
But a funny thing happened on their way to the fortune. Members of this generation, now about 42 to 60, never had much of a chance to inherit and invest the big money that they were supposed to have collected from their parents' generous gifts and estates. Valentine's Day is fast approaching -- and so are many impending marriage proposals.
According to fine jewelry company Blue Nile, more than 50,000 Americans will "pop the question" this Valentine's Day. But after the chocolate- and flower-induced euphoria fades, reality is sure to set in.
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